Leonard Nimoy Demos The Magnavision VideoDisc Player

As spokesman for Magnavox in 1981, Leonard Nimoy demonstrates the first consumer LaserDisc player made, the Magnavox VH-8000 MagnaVision. He is introduced to and guided through this product by a glowing and beeping rock. Nimoy is kind of doing Spock, but I don’t think Spock would be confused by the concept of a Laser Disc player. Oh and ABBA!

Leonard Nimoy Demos The Magnavision VideoDisc Player – Part 1 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWuapIF2Cdw

Leonard Nimoy Demos The Magnavision VideoDisc Player – Part 2 of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrM_2smni7M

5 thoughts on “Leonard Nimoy Demos The Magnavision VideoDisc Player”

I wish I had seen this back then, we were still buying the RCA SelectaVision system in 1982 to play Video Discs (CEDs) with a stylus! At least they came with a nice plastic cover so you wouldn’t touch the surface. However they only held 30 minutes of video on a side and had to be turned over.
At 4:11 in the first clip it sure looks like Nimoy put the disc in upside down!

Love the exciting ‘tech discovery’ feeling I get from watching this (and watching Leonard Nimoy talking with a testy flashing rock).
Had loads of fun renting laserdisc players and movies in the 90s.
Criterion had some jewels filled with hours of production details.
T’was the only time I got to see The Magnificient Ambersons, with an elaborate visual explanation of Welles’ longer, now-unavailable, version.

Well, vinvectrex, Nimoy doesn’t have the goatee, so he’s probably just morally ambiguous.
But if our future world dominators offer us laserdisc players to sooth our crumpled existence, then I, for one…well, you know.